Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] pid: add pidfd_open()

Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-16T15:06:12Z

On 05/17, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
>
> On 2019-05-16, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 05/16, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > >
> > > With the introduction of pidfds through CLONE_PIDFD it is possible to
> > > created pidfds at process creation time.
> >
> > Now I am wondering why do we need CLONE_PIDFD, you can just do
> >
> > pid = fork();
> > pidfd_open(pid);
>
> While the race window would be exceptionally short, there is the
> possibility that the child will die

Yes,

> and their pid will be recycled
> before you do pidfd_open().

No.

Unless the caller's sub-thread does wait() before pidfd_open(), of course.
Or unless you do signal(SIGCHILD, SIG_IGN).

Oleg.